Product Description: The seven essays in Leadership in Context explore important questions at the heart of understanding political leadership. The relationship between personal political skill, the strength or weakness of institutional roles available to leaders, and the changing historical and political context in which leaders act forms the central discussion of each chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this study, the authors argue that over the last three decades the ways in which Congress and the presidency operate and interact have changed in several significant respects. Adopting a distinctly institutional focus, the text explains the nature of these changes and examines their consequences for the contemporary American political system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)